The Man Who Invented Gender - Engaging the Ideas of John Money

This book offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of John Money's writing, to assess the profound impact of this pioneering sexologist's work on the debates and research on sexuality and gender that dominated the last half of the twentieth century.

List of contents

Introduction: Sexual Behaviour in the Human
1 Once a Brethren Boy: The Early Years
2 Fixing Sex: Intersex
3 Lovemaps: The Relationship World
4 Man/Woman, Boy/Girl: Transsexuality
5 Gay, Straight, and In-Between: Homosexuality
6 The Edge of the Alphabet: Neologisms
7 What Wild Ecstasy: Sexual Liberation, Pedophilia, and Pornography
8 As Nature Made Him: The Reimer Case
Conclusion: Venuses Penuses
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Terry Goldie

Summary

This book offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of John Money’s writing, to assess the profound impact of this pioneering sexologist’s work on the debates and research on sexuality and gender that dominated the last half of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Goldie, Michael McNall
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2014
• EAN: 9780774827935
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-2793-5
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 226 mm x 155 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 384 g
• Series: Sexuality Studies; Sexuality Stud
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories